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The Vagrants

Unabridged Audiobook

Publisher: Recorded Books

Date: January 2010

Duration: 11 hours 30 minutes

Summary:

Yiyun Li is the winner of the prestigious Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. The Vagrants, set in 1979 China, is the story of those affected by the execution of a 28-year-old counterrevolutionary. Though suffering, Li's characters nevertheless struggle to maintain hope amid cruel circumstance. 'Li records these events . with such a magisterial sense of direction that the reader can't help being drawn into the novel.'-Publishers Weekly, starred review